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'Woke' American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say
The New York Times ^ | February 10, 2021 | Norimitsu Onishi

Posted on 02/11/2021 7:38:45 AM PST by Trump20162020

Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic.

The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.

The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron.

French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: emmanuelmacron; france; macron; woke
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1 posted on 02/11/2021 7:38:45 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
The French think the US is too far Left?

What?

2 posted on 02/11/2021 7:42:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Trump20162020

Keep importing muzzies and see how long you have French nation.


3 posted on 02/11/2021 7:45:44 AM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Trump20162020

The are a threat to any country that views them as being sound, which is pretty much the entire free world. Thus the whole world is adversely affected by them.


4 posted on 02/11/2021 7:46:25 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Trump20162020

Those ideas are a threat to the US as well. Just as intended.


5 posted on 02/11/2021 7:47:37 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: dynachrome

Those Muslims are probably less likely to celebrate children ‘transitioning’ and marching in pride parades than Americans.

I’m half-joking, but America in 2021 is embarrassing.


6 posted on 02/11/2021 7:48:10 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
Both the French left and the French right are totally incensed with the crazy far left diktats of the deranged Us Big Tech lunatics like Facebook and Twitter.
Hey Macron, just get the French parliament to pass a very tough unanimous law banning all US social media companies from France or impose very heavy, crippling fines on these evil US companies every single time they violate any Frenchman's free speech rights merely for expressing political opinion like they are doing in the US.
You can do it Macron.
7 posted on 02/11/2021 7:51:06 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Trump20162020

They are right. American universities, entertainment industries, and social media are exporting a particularly deadly form of neo-Marxism to the Western world. Yes, many of the ideas technically have their roots in French, British, and other European “scholarship”, but we added our own spin to it, repackaged it, and made it look cool. As a result, it’s taking over everything. Shame on us.


8 posted on 02/11/2021 7:58:02 AM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Trump20162020

The French are dissing America??? Babylon HAS fallen, indeed.


9 posted on 02/11/2021 8:00:09 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Trump20162020

How is it I agree with the French?


10 posted on 02/11/2021 8:01:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Trump20162020

American universities are toxic wastelands of Marxism. Keep your kids out of them until they are mentally prepared to do battle and economically prepared to lose that battle and still make a good life for themselves.


11 posted on 02/11/2021 8:04:27 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: dynachrome

Keep importing muzzies and see how long you have French nation.

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Hell, keep indoctrinating people into Leftism and see how long any of us keep our nations.


12 posted on 02/11/2021 8:08:21 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Trump20162020

They are right... The wokies have destroyed this country already.


13 posted on 02/11/2021 8:12:05 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Trump20162020

When you speak the truth you get fired.

The Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano fired from Lucasfilm after fallout over social media post
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-fired-from-lucasfilm-after-fallout-over-social-media-post

From Donald Trump Jr today. Retweets of others:

Gina Carano Rehired By Disney After She Identifies As An Abusive Male Director https://babylonbee.com/news/gina-carano-rehired-by-disney-after-she-identifies-as-an-abusive-male-director


Disney just fired @ginacarano
Disney employs producer Jack Morrissey, who tweeted that MAGA kids should go into the wood chipper, and Disney did nothing.
That’s how much Disney cares about children


Disney re-hired James Gunn but fired Gina Carano
Tells you everything
Disney fires James Gunn after old tweets about rape, pedophilia found


14 posted on 02/11/2021 8:16:30 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Trump20162020
The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron.

Let us not forget that those theories exist because of decades of cultivation of leftism in our universities, media, and entertainment. The Soviet moles used heavy propaganda to turn American minds, and the susceptible Americans, once influenced, melded the Soviet propaganda with American cultural ideals and came up with something toxic and vile. For example, the belief of most Americans that America can do anything has led to the belief that we can actually make socialism work. Another example is the belief that one can change human nature if one just imposes enough censorship, which underlies cancel culture.

And, yes, the American brand of socialism, which is a child of Soviet socialism, is a clear and present danger to all people who value freedom. Once the US falls down that slippery slope of socialist dictatorship, what happens to the other free peoples of the world? Isn't that what China is trying to achieve in order to secure world domination (New World Order)?

15 posted on 02/11/2021 8:18:25 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The French think the US is too far Left?
What?

Nope.
The French think the big US tech companies are dictators who abuse their power to influence elections and push their own anti human agendas that nobody outside of a very small clique in the US subscribe to.
The Chinese certainly don't sunscribe to the big tech nonsense about no difference between men and women. The Chiese Government only last week started a program to make men real men again, and sop what they called the “fermentation of men”.

16 posted on 02/11/2021 8:22:37 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: dynachrome
Keep importing muzzies and see how long you have French nation.

Actually, Macron only a few weeks ago, started cracking down hard on the muzzies.
Macron is already fed up with the politically correct crap.

17 posted on 02/11/2021 8:24:47 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Trump20162020

Anti-intellectual


18 posted on 02/11/2021 8:25:09 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: who knows what evil?
The French are dissing America???

Everybody is dissing the big US teach companies, including India, Burma, Uganda, Germany etc.

19 posted on 02/11/2021 8:27:17 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ClearCase_guy

Today the US is more secular, globalist, has a high degree of censorship, and has a higher government share in the GDP (43%) than Russia (~36%).

Weird times we live in.


20 posted on 02/11/2021 8:31:54 AM PST by Red6
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